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    The main focus of this project has been on expectations of women in the 19th century and codes they were meant to uphold‚ This expectation continued for certuries and the world has developed and changed over time‚ expectations were multiple things such as women meant for being superior to man‚ women working from homes and dedicating themselves to their families. Georgianna as a woman in the 19th century did what she was supposed to‚ they were loyal to their husbands and did as asked even though

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    Salvador Chavez “My Expectations of the Automotive Repair Industry” My expectations of the automotive repair industry are to learn everything I need to know about fixing a car from the simplest thing to the most complicated. My goals are to go to school and study what I like to become a better person and try to succeed in life. Also I want to transfer from Citrus College to a UC and major in business and hopefully one day have a chance to run a shop with my father. The personal sacrifices

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    effect of superstitious beliefs on performance expectations Lauren Block & Thomas Kramer Received: 7 January 2008 / Accepted: 15 August 2008 / Published online: 9 September 2008 # Academy of Marketing Science 2008 Abstract We explore superstitious beliefs as a basis of product performance expectations and their impact on initial purchase likelihood and subsequent satisfaction. In doing so‚ we demonstrate instances when superstitiondriven expectations cause consumers to make purchase decisions

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    The great philosopher‚ Confucius‚ once said‚ “The expectations of life depend on diligence.” Expectations are everything in life. Where one will end up is completely up to that individual and their work ethic. Expectations can also lead judgement and distrust in individuals that you meet. In the literary classic‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by F Scott Fitzgerald‚ there is an overarching theme of how expectations can control our lives. At the beginning of the novel‚ the reader meets Nick Carraway‚ a quiet

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    job outside the home. Most mothers felt pressured into following the expectations that the community around them had set to be the norm. Attitudes towards mothers of the twentieth century seemed to be in constant turmoil‚ depending on if mothers were benefiting their children or trying to benefit themselves. Motherhood was a rewarding‚ but challenging job. Mothers felt the need to preserve and overcome the stereotypical expectations of what motherhood

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    Great expectations Analysing my story board We are reading Great Expectations and our task was to storyboard the opening scene where Pip encounters he convict‚ Magwitch‚ for the first time. I am going to analyse 3 of the 8 frames. First of all‚ I am going to look at Frame number one‚ this is where Pip is at the cemetery mourning over his lot family. I decided to show Pip at the cemetery looking at his parents and his brother’s graves. I did this because it shows a clear and rich understanding

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    Great Expectations: A Character-Driven Novel The novel‚ Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens is heavily a character-driven novel due to the fact that the sequence of events in the novel are causes and effects of the actions of the characters as well as the interactions between them. The novel mainly depicts the growth and development of an orphan named Pip‚ who is greatly influenced by the other characters and became a gentleman and a bachelor in the end of the novel through his encounters with

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    In contrast‚ there are characters like Pip from Great Expectations that have that typified type of lifestyle. As a matter of fact‚ Pip is the epitome of a typified low-class child. In Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens makes a bold attempt at showing his feeling towards the bourgeois and beyond of London in the early 1600s. Pip is a "rags-to-riches" boy that has great expectation in life. But later on he finds out that his almighty expectations are nothing but a meek overshot of the life he once dearly

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    Consider the function of the imagery in Great Expectations and explain how it conveys ideas about class or gender. Imagery is a crucial device employed in literary texts that affects how we interpret dominant ideologies of the society represented in the text. This is the case in Charles Dickens’ realist novel‚ Great Expectations (1860-61)‚ which enacts the stratified class structure and power relationships of Georgian and early Victorian England. The novel is a critique of a society where capital

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    Havisham contradicts tradition. Miss Havisham influences the outcome of Pip’s life by exposing him to the idea of wealth and its relation to social status. In “Great Expectation” by Dickens Pip’s expectation of wanting to be a gentleman shows that reality is sometimes ignored when it doesn’t fit within the same premises of the desired expectation. Pip is introduced to Estella by Miss Havisham when he visits her home at “Satis house‚” but Estella’s attitude towards Pip’s social status causes Pip to envisage

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